Two years ago, virtually no one watched historic Clapton who had rumbled and bumbled shambolically along in the Essex Senior League for years as one of the worst teams.

From nowhere, fans priced out of ponce-class football with its stratospheric prices and rapacious commercial fervour suddenly came out of the woodwork to cheer on amateur players on rickety terraces, in the process sparking a renaissance.

Get this: only Brentwood in the 70s have enjoyed such popular attention in the league – and that was only because Jimmy Greaves – JIMMY bloody GREAVES – a football legend, was playing for them.

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